Nintendo lays off an undisclosed amount of employees from North America Division (Contractor Testing Roles).

[John Elden Ring]

According to the Kotaku portal, which was the first to post this information, an unknown number of employees have been dismissed from Nintendo's US division. Following the website's report, Nintendo itself officially confirmed this:

Nintendo of America (NOA) has reorganized its Product Testing functions to drive greater global integration in game development efforts. The changes will also better align NOA with interregional testing procedures and operations.

These changes will involve some contractor assignments ending, as well as the creation of a significant number of new full-time employee positions. For all assignments that are ending, the contractors’ agencies, with NOA’s support, will offer severance packages and provide assistance during their transition.

For those contractor associates who will be leaving us, we are tremendously grateful for the important contributions they’ve made to our business, and we extend our heartfelt thanks for their hard work and service to Nintendo.

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[Gamernyc78]

There is a number and this was just contractor roles.

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[mckmas8808]

120 isn't too bad. So Nintendo still looks good here.

 

[Evilnemesis8]

120 isn't too bad. So Nintendo still looks good here.

Less when you consider than some of these will be moved to permanent jobs.
They probably don't need all of them because I assume a bunch of Switch 2 games have been completed for a while now.
Nintendo has been known to sit on completed games, sometimes for more than a year, for a release date that makes sense on from a strategic software output standpoint.

Considering the historical precedent with Nintendo and generation transitions, they certainly are trying their very best to not repeat mistakes of the past.